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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] veth: Showing peer of veth type dev in ip link (kernel
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 17:21:33 +0200
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Le 04/10/2013 06:05, Masatake YAMATO a =C3=A9crit :
> ip link has ability to show extra information of net work device if
> kernel provides sunh information. With this patch veth driver can
> provide its peer ifindex information to ip command via netlink
> interface.
But the ifindex can be interpreted only when you know the related netns=
 and
veth peer is probably in another netns.
How to found the netdevice in userland in this case?